Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

back up

German translation:

sichern

Added to glossary by Roddy Stegemann
Sep 27, 2006 18:30
17 yrs ago
English term

back up

Non-PRO English to German Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology) Data Storage
As simple as this term must be, it is nowhere to be found in the English-German glossary list. The closest I could come was Sicherungskopie, but this is hardly a verb.

Surely, there must be a standard industry term for this very common task. The last time I was in Germany the only people who used computers were scientists.

Once the verb is known, it should be easy to discover the corresponding adjective and noun -- namely, back-up.

Proposed translations

+6
3 mins
Selected

sichern

Context (a complete sentence) would help!
Peer comment(s):

agree Stefanie Sendelbach
2 mins
Thank you, Stefanie.
agree Siegfried Armbruster
18 mins
Thank you, sarmb.
agree Erik Freitag
18 mins
thank you, efreitag.
agree Kim Metzger
21 mins
Thank you, Kim.
agree Geneviève von Levetzow
4 hrs
Thank you, Geneviève.
agree Aniello Scognamiglio (X) : still waiting for the English sentence!
12 hrs
Thank you, Aniello. How to make askers understand that it's in their own best interest to provide context? :-)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I would like to thank everyone for their terrific input. I found all of the terms equally good. I chose this answer as best, as it offers a nearly one-to-one correspondence with what will now become a good starting point for the gloss entry. Judging from your answers you understood well the context of the entry even without a sentence. It wasn't as if i left you without a clue . . . ."
+3
4 mins

die Daten sichern / Sicherung der Daten

There you have it, as noun or as verb

Daten sichern ist aber mehr als Daten speichern. Daten sind dann sicher, wenn sie auch noch vorhanden sind, nachdem mehr als gewöhnliche Ereignisse auf die ...
www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/Sicherheit/Nutzer/sichern.shtml
Peer comment(s):

agree Stefanie Sendelbach
2 mins
danke, Stefanie
agree Erik Freitag
18 mins
thank you
agree Siegfried Armbruster
18 mins
thank you
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+3
5 mins

Sicherungskopie anfertigen, Backup erstellen

...are just two of the umpteen possibilities that we have without more context.
Peer comment(s):

agree Siegfried Armbruster
17 mins
agree Stefanie Sendelbach : Ja, auch möglich.
45 mins
agree Geneviève von Levetzow
4 hrs
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